Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara — Earth from space | Live Science
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'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different | Live Science
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Oops! Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS | Live Science
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Care workers raise concerns over illegal pay and 'misleading' job adverts - The Mirror
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Care workers raise concerns over illegal pay and 'misleading' job adverts
Homecare Voices, a grassroots support network for over 650 care workers throughout the UK, warned staff were being promised hourly rates that didn’t include their travelAlexander Brown (Daily Mirror)
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Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds – Disability News Service
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Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…Disability News Service
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Is the state pension called a benefit so it can easily be scrapped?
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EHRC guidance dubbed ‘misogynist’s charter’ as trans people ‘could be banned from single-sex spaces based on looks’ | The Independent
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EHRC guidance dubbed ‘misogynist’s charter’ as trans people ‘could be banned from single-sex spaces based on looks’
Places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will reportedly be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by othersMillie Cooke (The Independent)
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One of the subjects covered in this episode is the massacre in Dafur, Sudan against the Massalit people.
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Inside Ardamata: Anatomy of a massacre
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> Using a unique and groundbreaking investigative approach, filmmaker Sara Creta has forensically reconstructed events on the day Ardamata, in West Darfur, was overrun by rebel forces in 2023.
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“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”: Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan | HRW
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The 218-page report, “‘The Massalit Will Not Come Home’: Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan,” documents that the Rapid Support Forces, an independent military force in armed conflict with the Sudan military…Human Rights Watch
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Millions Could Lose ACA Help: Trump’s Refusal to Extend Subsidies Sparks Healthcare Crisis
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Millions Could Lose ACA Help: Trump’s Refusal to Extend Subsidies Sparks Healthcare Crisis
Trump’s refusal to extend ACA subsidies has left millions facing sky-high premiums. Can lawmakers find a solution before it’s too late?Ghiles Slamani (en.econostrum.info)
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Protect the terminally ill from poverty (Petition)
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MAGA Vs Jesus. Round 6 . Toxic Masculinity.
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MAGA vs. Jesus Round 6 — Toxic Masculinity
MAGA says: “We need to make men, men again.” The Bible says: “There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines (Rev'd Up with Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines)
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DWP Announces Major PIP Assessment Overhaul – Here’s How It Will Affect You
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Labour's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush - Big Issue
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Shabana Mahmood’s asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush – but it’s not too late to change
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum policies won’t ease the cost of living or strengthen communities. But they will tear friendships and families apart.Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah (Big Issue)
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‘I’m missing so much of my son’s life’: the families split by Labour’s asylum crackdown | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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‘I’m missing so much of my son’s life’: the families split by Labour’s asylum crackdown
As the government imposes stricter rules for families of asylum seekers coming to the UK, one mother tells how her son is growing up without herChris Osuh (The Guardian)
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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns | NHS | The Guardian
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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investmentDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
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Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank | Public services policy | The Guardian
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Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank
Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymakingKiran Stacey (The Guardian)
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Prevent the DWP scrutinising disabled people's bank accounts
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@Katelyn Burns I mean is anyone surprised that the current supreme court supported Trump in this?
Biggest surprise is it took them this long to intervene in his favor.
Yesterday's news: sickness absence, driven in large part by a surge in mental health issues, is costing the UK economy £212 billion a year.
Today's news: NHS mental health services are closing.
If someone thinks that's going to save money, they are going to be sorely disappointed.
Also, quite apart from the money, it's just utterly cruel on a human level.
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Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns
The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.Emer Moreau (BBC News)
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Folk who get drained by social interaction, does that also happen to you in online spaces?
Please boost, for science.*
*The science is my curiosity
- Yes, with friends/family and strangers (44%, 284 votes)
- Yes, but only with strangers (18%, 116 votes)
- No, I can chat online all day (19%, 122 votes)
- I mostly lurk (33%, 212 votes)
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Ben Jennings on the prison overcrowding crisis in England and Wales – cartoon | Ben Jennings | The Guardian
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Ben Jennings on the prison overcrowding crisis in England and Wales – cartoon
The number of prisoners released by mistake has more than doubled in one year, official figures showBen Jennings (The Guardian)
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Disabled people who want to work say they can’t due to a ‘chronically underfunded’ welfare system and accessibility issues | The Independent
Cutting benefits doesn't get disabled people into work it just gets us into poverty.
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Disabled people who want to work say they can’t due to a ‘chronically underfunded’ welfare system and accessibility issues
Author of major review on how to keep people in work warns UK is ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’ amid ‘enormous’ cost to employers from ill health among workersTara Cobham (The Independent)
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I know how to get the long-term sick and disabled people back to work | The Independent
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I know how to get the long-term sick and disabled people back to work
The government’s proposed ‘ruthless’ cuts to the welfare payments won’t fix our broken benefits system, says disability rights campaigner Kamran Mallick – instead, some targeted investments would actually pay dividendsKamran Mallick (The Independent)
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‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts | The Independent
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‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts
Our community says disability benefit cuts will ‘break people,’ leave carers ‘destitute,’ and cause a human cost many say is being ignoredIndependent (The Independent)
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Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say | Poverty | The Guardian (1 year old)
And if the govt keep cutting benefits more &more people will be buying their food on the black market unless there are enough food pantries (food banks often only allow you 3 food parcels a year or other such restrictions).
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Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say
Exclusive: Goods such as meat, cheese and confectionery stolen in large amounts to be sold to people hit by high cost of livingRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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There is a thriving shadow economy in Britain – but migrants are not to blame | Emily Kenway | The Guardian
Reducing benefits will only result in more folk working in this Shadow Economy for wages that won't get deducted from their meagre benefits. For many it's the only way to make ends meet already.
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There is a thriving shadow economy in Britain – but migrants are not to blame
Labour is desperately trying to mimic Reform’s line on the cash economy, says former policy adviser Emily KenwayEmily Kenway (The Guardian)
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Woman who ‘felt completely out of control’ for 25 years finally diagnosed - The Mirror
The correct diagnosis when she finally got it, as she entered Perimenopause, was PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, a severe version of PMS
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Woman who ‘felt completely out of control’ for 25 years finally diagnosed
Nicky George felt ‘completely out of control’ as she faced multiple misdiagnoses for over two decadesSamantha Leathers (Daily Mirror)
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Fury as thousands of tonnes of food for starving Palestinians stuck in warehouse
Most of the 'Aid' getting into Gaza is commercial deliveries destined for shops in Gaza whilst actual aid is left in warehouses & about to become out of date.
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Thousands of tonnes of UK aid for Gaza stuck in Jordan
The Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper is calling on Israel to open up a safe route for UK aid to be transported to Gaza.Channel 4 News
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Doctors didn't take me seriously - until my partner came with me | Metro News.
Women getting dismissed by A&E doctors & their symptoms ignored unless they have a white male to speak up for them.
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Doctors ignored my symptoms - but took my boyfriend seriously when he intervened
Juliette says she has experienced medical misogyny - when she brought her boyfriend along to an appointment, they finally listened to her.Juliette Burton (Metro)
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DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts – Disability News Service
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DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts
Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, following months of activism by disabled people and allies that forced th…Disability News Service
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor: King Charles wants brother to be stripped of his last remaining military title, minister says | The Independent
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Chris Parkinson-Brown: New water pipeline plan explained
Well, we need to save more of the water we have, and for once in their flawed corporate lives, water companies are doing something about this.Chris Parkinson-Brown (Hampshire Chronicle)
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Train attack eyewitness says ‘hero’ threw himself in front of knife | News | Independent TV
Horrific knife attack on the train. Those arrested are British born.
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Huntingdon train stabbing: Witness describes aftermath and driver’s reaction in exclusive interview
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What asylum seekers are entitled to while awaiting decisions on their cases | The Independent
If meals are not provided where they are living its just £49.28/week. Could you live on that? If meals are provided its £9.95/week. That has to cover sanity towels, all toiletries, etc. Even the no food provided amount is substantially less than you get on Universal Credit for general living expenses.
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Disinformation often surrounds the level of help asylum seekers are given when they arrive in the UKAugust Graham (The Independent)
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And remember they are not allowed to work so they can't get a job to pay for their living expenses unless they are going to work illegally cash in hand. If they do they will be working in very exploitative conditions because they don't have any employment rights.
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UN approves resolution supporting Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara | Western Sahara | The Guardian
The Sahrawi people used to live in Western Sahara before Morocco took it over. They are not allowed to be openly Sahwari in Morocco controlled territory. Many of them have been forced into refugee camps in the desert. Simon Reeve visited them a number of years ago.
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UN approves resolution supporting Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara
Move is strongest endorsement yet for retained rule over disputed territory, despite fierce opposition from AlgeriaGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor | The Guardian
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Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commonerCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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Asylum accommodations are retraumatising survivors of torture | Morning Star
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ASYLUM accommodations, particularly barracks and hotels, are retraumatising survivors of torture, campaigners warned today.Morning Star
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Trump ‘sad’ as he concedes the Constitution is ‘pretty clear’ on running for a third term: Live updates | The Independent
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Trump ‘sad’ as he concedes the Constitution is ‘pretty clear’ on running for a third term: Live updates
Trump, who declared he’s ‘not a king’ was awarded a gold crown during his visit to South Korea, one day before he’s set to meet with China’s leader Xi JinpingOwen Scott (The Independent)
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Millions of drivers unaware over little-known number plate meaning
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Furious Prince Andrew row explodes on Good Morning Britain as host forced to intervene
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DWP ministers ‘must be shown’ new research which shows likely results of ‘obscene’ plans to cut benefits
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